58 THE KANSAS PEACH. 



Soil from Missaukee county: 

 Timber: Beech, maple, elm, and 



some pine. 



> Sand and silicates % 69.39 



Alumina 8.35 



Oxide of iron 5.80 



Lime 1.15 



Magnesia 98 



Potash 1.95 



Soda 1.15 



Sulphuric acid 25 



Phosphoric acid 28 



Organic matter containing / . —, 



.11 nitrogen \ 



Water 5.38 



Capi lary capacity for water, 



39.10.' 



MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 



•JAPAN BLOOD PEACH. 



A correspondent of the Fruit Growers' Journal, in speaking of the 

 Japan blood peach, says : " The tree is of a rather stocky, dwarfish 

 growth ; which is all the better, for the branches shade the trunk and 

 prevent the sun from burning the bark and thus damaging the tender 

 wood. The tree comes into bearing the second year after planting, 

 and matures its fruit about one week earlier than Alexander or any 

 of the early June varieties ; and the specimens were not only good- 

 sized but rijDB fully to the seed, and of almost as fine flavor as George 

 the Fourth or other freestones that we have in August. I am free to 

 say that the introduction of this peach, considering all its good points, 

 was the most remarkable occurrence in peach culture, so far as my ex- 

 perience has gone, in a quarter of a century. Kipening the 1st of 

 June; a decided freestone; of good equality; blooms late; and is not 

 in danger of spring frosts." 



VITALITY OF TREES. 



Maturing an immense crop reduces the vitality so that the tree is 

 unable to ripen a crop of fruit-buds the succeeding season ; so that 

 there is only one crop in two years ; or else the tree or vine by annual 

 overbearing is unable to make a healthy growth of new wood, so it 

 dwindles and soon dies. 



THINNING. 



Thinning cannot be done with a brush, or by thrashing o£P the fruit, 

 because the fruit that remains will be more or less bruised by the 

 thrashing, and the finest .sijecimens are more likely to be removed 

 than the smaller. 



